Among the ten thousand things : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101912881
- ISBN: 110191288X
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (1 sound file (09 hr., 05 min., 54 sec.)) : digital - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Audio, 2015.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Hillary Huber. |
Source of Description Note: | Title details screen (OverDrive; viewed July 16, 2015). |
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Subject: | Spouses -- Fiction Sculptors -- Fiction Ballet dancers -- Fiction Daughters -- Fiction Adultery -- Fiction Family crises -- Fiction New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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Summary:
For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost. Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife, Deb, gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack's secret life. The package is addressed to Deb, but it's delivered into the wrong hands: her children's. With this vertiginous opening begins a debut that is by turns funny, wise, and indescribably moving. As the Shanleys spin apart into separate orbits, leaving New York in an attempt to regain their bearings, fifteen-year-old Simon feels the allure of adult freedoms for the first time, while eleven-year-old Kay wanders precariously into a grown-up world she can't possibly understand.